People working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aren’t just hiding their faces on the streets of American cities. They’re also remaining anonymous in court.

According to a new report from The Intercept, judges are declining to identify attorneys working for ICE during deportation proceedings spurred on by the agency. At one hearing, the oulet noted that the judge stated her own name, the name of the immigrants facing deportation, and the name of their attorneys, but failed to identify the ICE attorney.

“We’re not really doing names publicly,” an immigration judge in New York City, ShaSha Xu, said during a hearing in June.

Xu cited “privacy” as a justification, adding that “things lately have changed.”

Attorneys and legal experts are baffled by the move. Attorney Kenneth Whi

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